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Generally I find it's a good idea not to pontificate on something if you don't know anything about it. There is no such thing as an "external US IP address" that would be "foreign inside the firewall", in fact that sentence is pretty much gibberish. I am curious if they were caught by network...

You're a pretty poor hacker if you don't know how to use a VPN or proxy to get a U.S. IP address!

"I've tended to hear" as the first post from young Dustin tends to indicate that the post is pretty scam-y.

I think HFT has pretty radically changed trading in a very insidious, sneak up on you kind of way. A 2008-9 type event, given that you don't lose all you capital in the initial crash, is less scary to me because it's obvious that the world has changed.

What is the geometry scared of, all this nonsense mumbo jumbo?

So technically they got equity but the shareholders went from owning 100% of the company to owning .5% (.26% after a mandatory convertible note conversion), so it was really a token amount of equity. They lost 99.74% of their ownership of the company in the bankruptcy. These kind of token...

It's easy to leave the rat race, not necessarily retire. Starting a company ensures you're only working on what you want to work on, with people you want to work with, and to some extent the hours you want to work. Don't get me wrong, you could very well still be working your behind off, but...

Why bother to do this yourself, just buy one of several ETFs that engage in this strategy, PBP, HSPX, QYLD, VEGA are a few. Also, you can look at the history on these and see how you would have done, quick and cheap backtesting.

You don't need to be rich to enjoy life. But $20k a year puts some pretty severe restrictions on where you can live and what you can do. If it works for you then good on ya, but definitely not for everyone or even most everyone. There are far easier ways out I the rat race than living as an ascetic.

The lawyers worked for the government, they got the same $100-140k per year that they always get no matter what. How much the banks paid thier lawyers is immaterial unless you happen to be a shareholder of the bank. I think you all must be thinking about class action suits, this is a very...

So you just showed up end of November with a chip on your shoulder against a number of posters? I'm gonna call bullshit on that one, care to have any of the mods back you up on that?

Simple question my friend, are you or aren't you a person who posts under another alias on this board? I answered the question for my case, can you?

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Dude, you show up Nov 30th and clearly already have a chip on your shoulder about a number of contributors to ET. It's blatantly obvious that you are simply a sock puppet for another poster, which one or ones is immaterial. One has to wonder what in the world you get out of that. It's not the...

I can see myself forgetting and throwing it out, great idea as the last place someone would look though!

Thanks, I stand corrected Robert. Quick question, does every option have at least one registered market maker subject to those rules?

I'm not sure I've seen a case of an OTM option with no bids that you could still sell if you put in an offer, so I'd have to defer to anyone else who might have seen that?

I believe that rule applies to stocks, not options.

True, although you can trade calendar spreads for very little vis-à-vis the underlying on FOPs so even with FOPs it can bite you if you're not paying attention.

W Add W.J. Feathermaker III aka AAAintheBeltway aka however many other aliases the dude has to the list of those who need psychological help. These guys literally make up multiple aliases and then respond to their own posts. Back in the pre-internet days they were the one's walking down the...